Al-Yaarubiyah
Al-Yaarubiyah (Arabic: اليعربية) (Kurdish: Til Koçer)[1] is a town in al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Al-Yaarubiyah had a population of 6,066 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative center of a nahiyah ("subdistrict") consisting of 62 localities with a combined population of 39,459 in 2004.[2]
Al-Yaarubiyah
اليعربية | |
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Town | |
![]() ![]() Al-Yaarubiyah | |
Coordinates: 36°48′42″N 42°3′59″E | |
Country | ![]() |
Governorate | al-Hasakah |
District | al-Malikiyah |
Subdistrict | al-Yaarubiyah |
Control | ![]() |
Population (2004) | |
• Total | 6,066 |
Time zone | UTC+3 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (EEST) |
Its population are mostly Arabs of the Shammar tribe. In the course of the Syrian Civil War, the town initially came under the control of jihadist rebels, including the al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, but was later captured by the People's Protection Units (YPG),[3] bringing it into the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria.
Border post
The town was the border post between French-Syria and British-Iraq and had a railway station on the Baghdad Railway.
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It is twinned by Rabia on the Iraqi side of the border.
References
- Syrian Kurds ache for a lifeline by Karlos Zurutuza, Middle East Eye, 12 February 2015
- General Census of Population and Housing 2004Archived 2014-08-24 at the Wayback Machine. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Al-Hasakah Governorate. (in Arabic)
- "Syrian Kurds capture border post". Retrieved 13 July 2015.